Trafika Europe 4 - Armenian Rhapsody

Six poems

Marine Petrossian

Marine Petrossian is an Armenian poet and essayist, whose writings and TV appearances have made her a public figure in Yerevan.

Her first volume of poems came out in Yerevan in 1993; she has been translated widely, and is a frequent participant in literary events, notably in France and Macedonia, as well as Austria, Canada, the US and elsewhere. She is a Laureate of the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme, and an articulate translator of her own poetry and experience. The works here are the result of a recent one-month grant to a retreat in New York, where she translated her latest volume of poems, and performed in a Trafika Europe event in New York City. She resides in Yerevan.

Translated from Armenian by the author in collaboration with Sylva Dakessian.

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